I think I’ve got a new crush: Willem Greve. I didn’t want to say it during my previous recaps of Faultless: The Riders, The Horses, and the Pursuit of Excellence,...
Warning: Contains spoilers! As every reader of mine knows, my heart grows three sizes bigger every time Jumping La Baule comes up in conversation. Now imagine a six-part docuseries on...
For those of us intimately involved in show jumping, the sport is a complete and total obsession. It is rare that we think about anything else, even rarer that we...
How do you summarize a life, let alone one as extraordinary as Olympic show jumper Kevin Babington’s, in a single story? You simply can’t. You write a book. That’s precisely...
Two summers ago, I cleaned out the tack room in my parents’ barn. If anything accurately encapsulates my Vermont childhood, it is this old cow barn, home, over the years,...
"You read to fire your heart aflame. You read to lop the top of your head off. You read because you're the bravest idiot around, and you're willing to go...
It can be difficult to imagine top trainers and riders in their earliest moments of development, times when they may have been still acquiring basic horsemanship knowledge and learning the...
It can be the case that we look back on our lives and can easily identify inflection points—the key moments and events that led to change, to new goals, to...
Most horse lovers know a bit about the horse, and his long history with people. Without question, for humans, the horse is the most important animal in history. Still, most...
Anyone paying a modicum of attention to horse sport the past two years knows that the equestrian industry is on the hot seat—with good reason. We have reached a level...
The following is an excerpt from Never Trust a Sneaky Pony, and Other Things They Did Not Teach Me in Vet School, by Dr. Madison Seamans, DVM. College for most...
This excerpt from Anne Kursinski’s book, Riding & Jumping Clinic, takes the rider through an exercise that helps leverage a key component of a good distance: rhythm. Refining Your Sense...
She left her family and all she knew behind, got on her horse, and rode west. Sounds like a song about some long-ago adventure, doesn’t it? It was only 40...
Long gone are the days when we could consider our horse’s fitness the only point of concern when it comes to our athletic endeavors together. Sure, he has to collect...
I remember the first time I read the statistic: I was more likely to get seriously injured riding my horse than I was riding my motorcycle. At first I rejoiced,...
The question of “social license”—acceptance or approval granted to a particular group from the community at large—is all over the equestrian sphere at the moment. When our sports involve another...
We’ve all been there—on the horse who pokes his way around the warm-up ring, needs leg, leg, leg coming into the combination, or brings up the rear on every trail...
Riders of any discipline aren't known for having much free time outside of the barn. If you're as avid a reader as you are a rider, then those empty slots...
